Beacon Lesson Plan Library
Lesson Plans - Health
- A Message From Your Heart (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- A Taste of Blackberries (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
- All Aboard the Peace Train (Authored by Leslie Gortemoller.)
- An Atlas of Health Care (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
- Angels of Generosity (Authored by Amy Hayes.)
- Are You a Peacemaker or a Man-Eating Shark? (Authored by Teri Grunden.)
- Are you a Sexual Harasser? (Authored by Sandra Sicbaldi.)
- Are You Listening to Me? (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)
- Are You Ready for Personal Independence? (Authored by Shirley Godbold.)
- Bang, You're Dead! (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Behavior and the Adolescent (Authored by James Buchannon.)
- Bicycle Safety (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)
- Blind Alley (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Blooming with Self-Confidence (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Body Buddies (Authored by Jennifer Ryan.)
- Body Systems, Part I (Authored by Candace Parker.)
- Cancer Public Service Announcement (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)
- Captain’s Quest (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Catching a Balanced Diet (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Choice Not Chance (Authored by Rosa Banks.)
- Community Canned Food Drive (Part 1) (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
- Community Canned Food Drive (Part 2) (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
- Cooking a Few of my Favorite Things (Authored by Joyce Sewell.)
- Dealing with Bouts of Depression (Authored by Melissa Westerly.)
- Does Your Fitness Compute? (Authored by Jill David et al.)
- Eating for Two (Authored by Michelle Groce.)
- Eating More or Less? (Authored by Carson Ealy, Jr..)
- Exercise - The Right Stuff (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Exercise for Life (Authored by Jill David et al.)
- Exploring Personal Responsibility (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)
- Factoring out Disease (Authored by Erin Cramer.)
- Fair is Fair (Authored by Teri Grunden.)
- Fast Food Junkie (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)
- Feels Like Christmas, Exploring Touch (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Figuring Solutions (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
- Finding Nice Things to Say (Authored by Deborah Brannon.)
- Food Pyramid (Authored by Pam Kennon.)
- Food Pyramid Picnic (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
- Friendships Tied in Knots (Authored by Sherry Spencer.)
- Get Hooked on Conflict Resolution Skills (Authored by Leslie Gortemoller.)
- Get Hungry for Cooperation (Authored by Shelia Ray.)
- Give Me Five! (Authored by Kathryn La Rosa.)
- Go-o-o Tooth! (Authored by Pamela Williams.)
- Good Grief! (Authored by Pam Lord.)
- Good Snack,Smart Snack (Authored by Carolyn Mannis.)
- Group Research and Reports on STDs (Authored by Jeanne Pitts.)
- Growing Old (Authored by Shirley Godbold.)
- Guest Performance (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
- Health Hounds (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
- Health Hunt (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
- Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil (Authored by Nancy Montague.)
- Heart Throbs (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
- Helping Hands (Authored by Christine Davis.)
- How Do I Measure Up? (Early Grades) (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- How Do Words Feel? - Individually (Authored by Christine Davis.)
- How Do Words Feel? - Small Group (Authored by Christine Davis.)
- How To Stay Out of Hot Water (Authored by Beth Brewington.)
- I Am the Lucky One (Authored by Judith Bachay.)
- I Like Me (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- I Need a Job (Authored by Shelia Ray.)
- Identifying the Food Groups (Authored by Sendi Palmer.)
- Investigating the Food Pyramid (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Invisible Neighbors (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- It Is Raining Cats & Dogs (Authored by Michele Rivera.)
- It's Your Wellness (Authored by Richard Rooker.)
- Jimmy Jett and His TV Set (Authored by Sandi King.)
- Life Is Like a Roller-Coaster (Authored by Carmen Haskins.)
- Listen and Learn (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
- Living Tobacco Free (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Looking at the Man in the Mirror (Authored by Virginia Spivey.)
- Looks Like Christmas, Exploring Sight (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Media Moves (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
- Media Violence - The Good, the Bad and the Future (Authored by Judith Bachay.)
- Meet the Five Food Groups (Authored by Martha Cordell.)
- Mother, May I Communicate? (Authored by Paula Jones.)
- Mountain Tops (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- My Body (Authored by Carolyn Modawell.)
- Name Fame (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Newsmakers (Authored by Candace Parker.)
- Nutrition with a Smile (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
- Nutritionist for Hire (Authored by Jill David et al.)
- Oops, I Did Not Say It Right (Authored by Brenda Lewis-Williams.)
- Our Body Systems (Authored by Shelia Scofield.)
- Pass the Manners, Please (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Peace Begins with Me (Authored by Judith Bachay.)
- Peace Pie (Authored by Shelia Ray.)
- Peer Power Partners (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
- Pencil Pals (Authored by Leslie Gortemoller.)
- Picture Fists Full of Kisses (Authored by Ann Espersen.)
- Politics: Who Is in Control? (Authored by Patricia McAdams.)
- Port Hole (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Preventing Childhood Diseases Project (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
- Pyramid Power (Authored by Laurie Ayers.)
- Rate Your Plate (Authored by Kathy Crane.)
- Relaxation Station (Authored by Farrah Milby.)
- Resolution or Revolution? (Authored by Anne Reeves.)
- Responsibility (Authored by Sandi King.)
- Responsibility Rules! (Authored by Tiffany DuBose.)
- Running Out Loud (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Safe Actions (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)
- Safety First (Authored by Kenneth Shealy.)
- Safety Scenes (Authored by Carolyn Modawell.)
- Safety Surveys (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
- Salad Factory (Authored by Kaye Maddox.)
- Shape It Up (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Shuffle About (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- Sleep Central (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Smells Like Christmas, Exploring the Nose (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Snacks 'R Us (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Sounds Like Christmas, Exploring Hearing (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- Stop, Drop, Goal (Authored by Prudence Mason.)
- Substance Use and Its Effect on Behavior (Authored by James Buchannon.)
- Tastes Like Christmas, Exploring Taste (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- That’s Not What I Meant to Say (Authored by Christine Davis.)
- The ABCs of Healthy Foods (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- The Best Butter (Authored by Christine Davis.)
- The Best Times of Our Lives (Authored by Christine Davis.)
- The Cost of Art (Authored by Thomas Lucey.)
- The Fence (Authored by Christine Davis.)
- The Food Guide Pyramid (Authored by Christy Carpenter.)
- The Important Thing (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- The Inside Story of Muscles, Bones and Exercise (Authored by Cathy Burgess.)
- The Multimedia Heart (Authored by Carol Rine.)
- The Peace Table (Authored by Martha Cordell.)
- Those Convincing Commercials (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
- To Tell or Not to Tell (Authored by Christine Davis.)
- Train Talk (Authored by Pat Commander.)
- Trash It (Authored by Christine Davis.)
- Unraveling the Puzzle of the Human Brain (Authored by Christy Clanton.)
- Walk That Line (Authored by Thomas Martin.)
- What Did You Say? (Authored by Linda Kitner.)
- What's My Nutrition Value? (Authored by Kaye Maddox.)
- What's on Your Plate? (Authored by Wendy Wood.)
- What's Your Temperature? (Authored by Leslie Gortemoller.)
- Who Is Who? (Authored by Shirley Godbold.)
- Whodunit? (Authored by Kim Smith.)
- Why the Grinch Stole Christmas (Authored by Shirley Godbold.)
- Winning Resolutions (Authored by Melanie Henderson.)
- You Are What You Eat (Middle School) (Authored by Michaél Dunnivant.)
- You Are What You Eat (Primary Grades) (Authored by Debra Harris.)
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn about the importance of the heart and show what they know about positive health behaviors that enhance wellness by completing a KWL chart. This is the first lesson, first day in the Happy, Healthy Me unit.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: [A Taste of Blackberries] provides a wonderful shared reading experience for fourth graders. The main character in the story helps the reader understand ways to manage grief in the loss of a best friend and identify skills of a responsible family member.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Through a literature-based lesson, students identify perserverance and problem-solving strategies. This could also be utilized as a behavior management technique.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Partner teams utilize programs such as Street Atlas USA and Student Writing Center software packages to research and publicize an alphabetical directory of maps that indicates the precise location of the community’s health care facilities.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson uses ANGEL CHILD, DRAGON CHILD by Surat to identify generous actions. Students will keep a generosity journal reflecting acts of kindness they performed each week.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work on the concept of "fairness" through a group activity, discussion, and written responses with conflicts/resolutions from a short story, and then produce a page on the computer (or on paper) for a class book.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students gain insight into forms of sexual harassment, and learn techniques to avoid threatening situations, unwanted effects, dating violence, myths and school and state laws governing sexual harassment.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students identify differences between listening and not listening skills. Students learn how to use good listening skills when trying to solve a conflict. Students role-play using listening skills to resolve conflicts.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Through class discussion and self evaluation, students will discover what independence means to different individuals.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: By participating in this indoor/outdoor activity, students work to understand the pattern of events to learn about ultimate understanding.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This lesson is a class discussion to cause students to think about controlling anger in the classroom.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn how to operate and practice safe behavior on bicycles.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students work together to gather communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity in this indoor/outdoor activity.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Many children worry about not being able to do what other children can do. This lesson will help them understand and respect differences in readiness and abilities, as they read the book [Leo the Late Bloomer] and make flowers of their own.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is an interactive way to introduce body parts to first graders. After students are introduced to new vocabulary, they work in pairs to construct and label twenty body parts on a life-size outline of their bodies.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work with the systems of the body through research.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students explore the causes and treatments of cancer by developing a Public Service Announcement to share with others.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students work together to gather communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity in this indoor/outdoor activity.
Subject(s): Health, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn the importance of balanced meals and select foods that make up a balanced meal by playing a fishing game.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Fact or fiction: Do the foods we choose affect our health? The student researches diets in a country other than the USA, and compares it to the Food Guide Pyramid analyzing the affect it has on an individual’s health.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: During the fall holiday months, the class actively assists the local community in the annual collection of canned food for needy families. Advertisements promoting the campaign are created with Student Writing Center.
Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: During the fall holiday months, the class actively assists the local community in the annual collection of canned food for needy families. Students become involved in a graph-keeping adventure as they encourage the school to collect many canned foods.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: In this activity, students learn about the nutritional value of foods, calculate the measurements, and prepare a healthy recipe for the class. Then students publish a class cookbook with their recipes.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The purpose of this lesson is to bring out causes and symptoms of depression. Depression causes a tremendous amount of hurt to ourselves and others. This lesson offers an opportunity for hope to those who suffer from this illness.
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Health, Physical Education (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students chart and analyze baseline data pertaining to improving and maintaining fitness levels.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students learn how to keep a food diary and prepare a Healthy Meals Chart in order to assist them in making healthy choices regarding the foods they eat while pregnant.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students investigate by using the Internet to research the types of eating disorders and summarize their effects on the body by creating a PowerPoint presentation or poster presentation.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn regular exercise keeps the body strong and healthy. They make an exercise chain and practice the activities written on the links.
Subject(s): Health, Physical Education (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students produce a video that demonstrates health risk factors and how the controllable health risk factors can be reduced through regular exercise.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students examine themselves to evaluate their own levels of personal and social responsibility.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students identify health problems that occur during adulthood and list the related risk factors, as well as ways to delay the onset of or the prevention of the identified health problems.
Subject(s): Health, Social Studies, Theater (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn more about the concept of -fairness- by being involved in two unfair activities, role-playing three scenarios, and filling in a web about fairness.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students analyze the nutritional value of their favorite fast food meals and describe alternative choices for these unhealthy foods.
Subject(s): Health, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The sense of touch helps us learn about our world by feeling it and learning the size, texture, and shape of things. In this activity, students will classify four different sandpaper shapes by using only their sense of touch.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Sometimes students express their resistance to learning academic concepts. This lesson avails students opportunities to discuss their attitudes and feelings so they discover possible ways to constructively respond to them.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students have the opportunity to praise all class members in a written form.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students understand the food pyramid, nutrients provided by each food group,and determine whether they are healthy eaters.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Teacher and students discuss the food pyramid and appropriate choices for each food group. Students then plan a nutritional meal for a picnic lunch and make a class book. As a culminating event, the class plans and enjoys a picnic.
Subject(s): Health, Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This initiative emphasizes what participants perceive as characteristics of healthy friendships and how these characteristics can be utilized to solve the knots in the rope representing an unhappy friend relationship.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After being taught the Peaceworks curriculum for managing conflict, students will participate in a fishing game that encourages the appropriate response when asked questions on conflict resolution skills.
Subject(s): Health, Physical Education (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students, through music, movement, and literature, are taught the meaning and value of cooperation.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Children hear a story about cooperation and identify different ways in which they can use their hands for helping.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students identify healthy and unhealthy choices which will help them take proper care of their teeth for a lifetime.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: GOOD GRIEF! What better way to explain, demonstrate, and explore strategies related to a difficult topics? Through student role playing within family groups, the use of communicating strategies for managing grief will be explored.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: After completing a unit of study on nutrition, students work as company managers to design and advertise healthy snacks to sell. A list of ingredients will be listed for each snack and an advertisement will be designed to promote their product.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students work together in groups to research and gather information on a specific Sexually Transmitted Disease. Working as a team, they write a report and present the information orally to the class.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is a simulation activity whereby students experience problems the elderly face daily in their lives, such as loss of sight, hearing, taste, smell, mobility/dexterity and touch.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is for Day 8 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. Students use pretend television performances to practice how the media influence thoughts and feelings about health behaviors and distinguishing fact from opinion.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This is the first health lesson for Day 2 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. A problem scenario is read to students. Students are asked to become health experts to solve the problem. Unit Sunshine State Standards and vocabulary are introduced.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is for Days 5-7 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. Students listen to speakers to learn about personal health behaviors that influence individual well-being.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Through a video, group discussion, and role-playing, students learn about types of conflicts that occur in the school setting, identify how they escalate, and identify behaviors needed in resolving them.
Subject(s): Health, Mathematics, Physical Education (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students predict what might happen to their pulse rates after physical exertion and then make conclusions about the effects of physical activity on pulse rates.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students identify different ways in which they can use their hands for helping.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson, students find out more about their bodies and what makes them different by tracing each their partners' bodies on butcher paper. They record their heights and weights, then compare them to the others in the class.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students discover how spoken words feel by exploring these same words in textured print.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students place their hands in a cup and decide if the materials inside that cup would describe a word that is harsh or soft.
Subject(s): Health, Social Studies (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: What would the world be like today if a conflict that caused the Revolutionary War was resolved peacefully? Students will use their conflict resolution skills to role-play problems associated with the Boston Tea Party.
Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students explore their birth orders and the stress created from them. Then they identify their birth orders by drawing pictures of themselves and listing their birth orders. They are introduced to the concept of survey and conduct a verbal survey.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson celebrates the uniqueness of students and what they like about themselves. Students make collages and display them in the classroom
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn that individual character traits play an important role in their daily lives and could impact their future employment status.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After reviewing the school's lunch menu, the learner will be able to identify and label the five food groups correctly in a collage.
Subject(s): Health, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn that the food pyramid is an important nutritional tool. They classify foods and compare the number of servings per group that are necessary for maintaining good health by placing empty food containers in grocery bags.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students understand how keeping the body clean is important for maintaining good health. They demonstrate the importance of washing hands and identify everyday good health and hygiene habits.
Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Does sterilization prior to adoption reduce the euthanasia rate? This interactive lesson focuses on a community problem by measuring the annual adoption rate of sterilized animals to determine if sterilization before adoption reduces the euthanasia rate.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: In this lesson the students will gain an understanding of factors that affect their wellness. The lesson will focus on the individual's responsibility to avoid personal risk behaviors that have a negative impact on wellness.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: What would happen if we don’t accept responsibility for our actions? Through the use of the fun poem, “Jimmy Jett and His TV Set,” students learn the importance of assuming responsibility for personal health.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This activity will increase awareness of how life can be like a roller-coaster especially concerning changes in a family. Students may share feelings orally, in writing, and in drawing. Students learn and/or practice I messages.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is for Day 2 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. Students participate in a listening game and brainstorm ways to communicate health information and ideas.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students identify physical effects of smoking and recognize that tobacco is made of harmful substances. Students find a way to share this information with others.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Prepare for a fun way to teach your students to reflect on their behavior by -Looking at the Man in the Mirror.-
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson, students will explore their sense of sight, learn about the eyes and how to keep them safe, and become familiar with how to help blind people become a part of their world.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is for Day 7 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. Students examine various media to identify ways the media influence thoughts and feelings about health behaviors.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This lesson asks students to define, identify, measure and assess the level and impact of violence in media. The media forms that they will evaluate include music, sitcoms, news and other programs that may be identified by the students.
Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is designed to invite first grade students to identify the five food groups and the foods within each group as shown on the food pyramid.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity is an inexpensive, active way to teach positive communication of needs, wants, and feelings. Through the use of a “Mother, May I?” type game, students have the opportunity to identify problems and to demonstrate ways to react to given problems.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is an outdoor activity. Students work together to practice communication skills, leadership, trust, respect, and creativity. Students will be doing an excercise that requires them to help and trust each other in order to accomplish the task.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn the names and location of the human body parts. Working as a team to find pictures of different body parts, students put them in the correct position on a life size outline of a human body.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson, students learn the uniqueness of their names by reading the book, [Chrysanthemum], and completing other integrated math counting and graphing activities.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson gives students an opportunity to write about themselves and their families and enables them to share this information with others in a newsletter format. (Nets for Students: 3.2 and 4.2)
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lesson is for Day 4 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. Students will listen to a literature selection and then play a game about personal health behaviors related to nutrition.
Subject(s): Applied Technology, Health, Language Arts, Physical Education (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students devise a healthy dietary plan.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students will understand how the behavior of family members and peers affects interpersonal communication. The story “Chicken Little” will demonstrate and differentiate between truth or gossip.
Subject(s): Health, Science (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students demonstrate learned knowledge that the human body is made up of different systems whose functions are related.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students become aware of correct classroom communication and manners by reading the book, [David Goes to School], and playing the Good Manners Pudding Game. This is the first lesson in the All About Me Unit.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This lessons help students develop pro-social skills. Through the metaphors of a Dr. Seuss story, students identify bias, prejudice and discrimination. They brainstorm and practice skills that promote respect for diversity.
Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students review peacemaking strategies by identifying their capacity of creating and promoting peace within their classroom, home, community, and world. Fractions are introduced through the making of a -peace pie-.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Peer Power Partners empowers fourth graders with care and consideration for others as they tutor their first grade reading buddies.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn to identify and to use polite words through "I Care" Language vs. non-"I Care" Language.
Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Dissolve fears and evaporate tears anticipated on the first school day. In this handy lesson, students will empathize with the main character in the book THE KISSING HAND and experience a pictograph while learning to tell left hand from right hand.
Subject(s): Health, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students will read the article "Council Members Clash over Administrator's Job." They will be asked to think about how they would feel being placed in the same situation. All students will participate in role playing the news article.
Subject(s): Health, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: In this outdoor activity, students work together to practice communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity. The students also display physical and mental strengths.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students become informed advocates in the prevention of childhood diseases during the Preventing Childhood Diseases Project.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: This health lesson plan is for Day 3 of the unit [Wellness Wonders]. Students brainstorm facets of well-being and investigate health behaviors related to nutrition.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This activity is a fun way to teach students to analyze what they eat for one day. The student analyzes the nutrients, calories, and food groups using the USDA CNPP website Interactive Healthy Eating Index.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The Relaxation Station teaches students how to C.O.P.E. with stress and anxiety. Students learn helpful strategies to use in a classroom center.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students learn appropriate strategies to resolve conflicts and potentially dangerous and/or threatening situations by role playing situations
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: How can we teach students to be responsible? This lesson invites students to brainstorm, and then share ideas of how they can behave responsibly by respecting the rights of others. This is lesson one of seven in the unit, A Television in My Room.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This activity is a valuable method in teaching students responsibility with home and school tasks. If students in your class need to demonstrate the ability to organize the classroom or a room at home, then this is the lesson for you!
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Throughout this outdoor activity, students will work together to practice communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity. The student's ability to focus will determine the student's success.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn to distinguish between threatening and nonthreatening situations and role-play what to do when confronted with them.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Through inexperience or lack of training, teens may overlook safety in the automotive shop and on the job. This lesson provides a better understanding of safety rules outlined by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Subject(s): Health, Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students look at teacher-developed or student-developed slides of safe and unsafe situations. They identify the possible dangers and what can be done to prevent them.
Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students conduct Family Safety Surveys on a weekly basis for a month, hoping to encourage their families to actually practice safe family skills on a consistent basis.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Salad Factory allows students the ability to make their own salad and have the salad computer analyze it for the nutritional content.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students work together to gather communication skills; practice leadership, trust, and respect; and experience creativity in this indoor/outdoor activity.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students must work together and practice communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity in order to complete this outdoor activity successfully.
Subject(s): Health, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn about rest and sleep and how their habits may be healthy or unhealthy. Students make conclusions about how much sleep their bodies require by organizing information on a graph.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson, students learn that the sense of smell helps us to enjoy life and learn about unsafe conditions. Students will smell Christmas by making gingerbread ornaments.
Subject(s): Health, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students identify foods that make nutritious snacks. They will analyze snack foods to determine their fat content by completing an experiment.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: In this lesson, students learn that the sense of hearing helps us learn from each other through communication. Also, students learn sound can produce patterns.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Is tattling burning you up? Here’s a good lesson for teaching students to resolve conflicts quickly and independently in the classroom by connecting putting out fights to putting out fire.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: This is a lesson to cause students to think about substance use and afford them an opportunity to use their resistence skills for avoiding potentially harmful situations.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Taste helps us, among other things, to select and enjoy food. In this lesson, students learn about taste buds and the four familiar tastes.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students choose the “undesirable” word and replace it with its antonym.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Science (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students make an alphabet book of nutritional foods using the information they learned about nutrition and the value of different foods. Students also taste the foods represented by the letters they wrote about in their alphabet books.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students learn the importance of cooperating by working in cooperative groups. The groups are divided to show the many possiblities of how students work together.
Subject(s): Health, Mathematics (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students combine their time skills with their understanding of the -I - Care- rules in a game format. They decide if the time card is a good time or a bad time and place the good times on a clock.
Subject(s): Health, Social Studies (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: Students experience difficult situations where they need to choose values. This lesson provides students with a role-playing opportunity to discover alternative ways of approaching these situations.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The students become aware of the lasting effects that their words and actions have on people.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 9 - Grade 12)
Description: This lesson introduces the Food Guide Pyramid and Daily Guidelines for Americans and allows students to evaluate their current nutritional habits and to create a plan for developing healthy habits to last their lifetime.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Student-made time capsules end the All About Me unit by showcasing important things about individuals in class.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn the role of physical activity in helping muscles and bones grow strong and stay healthy.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Working in groups, students research the different aspects of the human heart. Groups work through steps to create a multimedia slide presentation. The presentation must follow preset criteria.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: The Peace Table engages first-grade students in a healthy way to talk about and handle feelings.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Those Convincing Commercials engages the class in creating a powerful commercial to advertise the cereal that they feel is most nutritious.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: By filling out an application, students receive a license to tattle. When completing the application, the student will identify the problem, decide if he or she can solve it on his or her own, and write three nice things about the person that he or she wants to tattle on.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn to retell specific information. They will listen and interpret train whistle signals and work cooperatively to play the game “I’m Going on a Train Trip."
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students learn to throw away their mean thoughts instead of saying them to the person with whom they are upset.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Unraveling the puzzle of the human brain carries the students on a journey to visit each of the lobes of the brain and the multiple intelligence housed there.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students work together to practice communication skills, leadership, trust, respect and creativity in this outdoor activity.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: The students will become aware of the relationship between verbal and nonverbal communication through role play of specific situations. These situations include personal experience, excerpts from novels, and pictures from magazines.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
Description: Students learn the nutritional value of food and how to read labels on food packages.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students create mock dinner plates. On these plates, they include magazine cutouts of foods from each of the groups in the food guide pyramid.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: When students lose their temper, they have trouble calming down. This lesson offers two ways to teach them how to keep from getting “boiling mad.”
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This wonderful ice breaker, for the first day of class, will help students to look at themselves in relationship to others, and to get to know each other. Use this as an introduction to a unit on self-esteem and Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs.
Subject(s): Health, Language Arts, Social Studies (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: This lesson is a way to integrate conflict resolution using positive behavior. The student chooses a community member, shows how to resolve a conflict, and trades writing with a classmate.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Everyone knows “How the Grinch stole Christmas,” but no one seems to know [why] the Grinch stole Christmas. This lesson is a look at what might have given the Grinch the feelings that he had to steal Christmas from Who-ville.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: After being taught -I Care Rules- for handling conflicts, students will role play different situations and use the -I Care- rules to handle the conflicts.
Subject(s): Health (Kindergarten - Grade 2)
Description: Students self-assess their personal snack habits and design a healthy snack to share with others.
Subject(s): Health (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Description: Students research and prepare 20 cards regarding nutritional needs, obesity, and health issues. Students determine their ideal weights and how many calories should be consumed daily to obtain the ideal weight and/or maintain it.